Nail-holder for horseshoe-nails.



I W. H. KRUG. NAIL HOLDER FOR HORSESHOE NAILS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 15, 1914,

1,127,6Q6. Patented Feb. 9, 1915.

'HE NORRIS PETERS C0,, PHOTOVLITHQ, WASHINGTON, D C. l

WILLIAM H. KBIZG, OF FUND, DU LAC. WISCONSIN.

NAIL-HOLliER FOR HORSESHOE-NAILS.

Specification of Letters Patent;

Patented Feb. 9, 1915.-

Application filed .1 une 15, 191%. Serial N 0, 845,081.

T all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, \VILLIAM H. Kroc, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of Fond du Lac, county of Fond du Lac, and State of Wisconsin, have invented new and useful Improvements in Naill-lolders for Horseshoe-Nails, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in nail holders for horseshoe'nails.

The object of my invention is to provide a nail box having a separate compartment for each different style of nails required in shoeing horses, so arranged that but one of said several compartments will be opened at a time, whereby, in case the box becomes accidentally inverted, the nails of the several compartments are prevented from being commingled together, and those in the open compartment only are liable 'to be discharged from its receptacle.

My improvements pertain more especially, among other things, first, to the mechanism for retaining any one of the several compartments beneath the opening in the stationary cover, and second to the device by which the handle is adapted to perform the three fold function of moving the box from place to place, second as a means for revolving the several receptacles as may be required to bring the desired receptacles beneath the opening in the stationary cover, and third as a means coiiperating with a spiral spring for retaining the nail recepta cl'es in contact with the under side of the stationary cover.

My invention is further explained by refcrence to the accompanying drawings in which,

Figure 1 represents a side view of my nail receptacles in connection with an ordinary tool box. Fig. 2 represents a vertical section of the upper portion of the device shown in Fig. 1, a side view of the bandle and the supporting standard shown in such figure. Fig. 3 represents an enlarged plan view of the nail receptacles removed from the other portion of the device, and, Fig. 4 represents a plan view of the stationary cover showing a portion of one of the receptacles beneath.

Like parts are identified by the same reference numerals throughout the several views.

1 represents the nail receptacle, which is made up of a plurality of separate compartrevolve together with said shaft 6.

through the plate 3, and. a plurality of rivets 4:. The plate 3, by which the several compartments of the receptacles are connected together, is provided with a threaded aperture 5 for the reception of the lower end of the vertical shaft 6, whereby said receptacles are caused to revolve with said shaft, and whereby said receptacles 2 may be successively brought beneath the opening 7 in the stationary cover 8. The stationary cover 8 is rigidly connected with the supporting bracket 9 by a plurality of rivets 10. The bracket 9 is rigidly connected at its respective ends with the vertical members 11 of the tool box by aplurality of bolts 12. The shaft 6 is adapted to be turned down in the. threaded bearings in the plate 3, when a nut 14 is turned up rigidly against said plate until said plate and nut are rigidly locked to said shaft 6. \Vhen the nut 14: hasv been thus secured in place, it serves as a lock nut to retain said shaft 6 rigidly in place in said plate 3, whereby said plate 3 and the several receptacles 2 are causel to r upported upon the upper side of the bracket 9 is a disk 15, which disk is provided with "a plurality of figures located at uniform distances apart, which figures indicate the numbers of the nails in the several receptacles 2. For example, it is understood that for ordinary horse-shoeing, the blacksmith uses nails numbering from 5 to 9, and nails of such numbers are located in each of said receptacles 2. when the numbers on the disk 15 are located substantially above the centers of said receptacles and said receptacles 2 and disk 15 are caused to revolve together as the handle 16' is turned. The disk 3 is provided with a stop pin 17 which is rigidly secured to said disk. The stop pin 17 is provided with a conical or rounded head, which is adapted to engage any one of the plurality of apertures 16 formed in said plate" 8, said plate 8 being provided with an aperture corresponding with each of the several pockets or receptacles 2. As a means of keeping the receptacles 2 and its supporting plate in contact with the stationary plate 8, I have provided a spiral spring 18, which spring 18 is interposed between the handle 16' and disk 15, and the recoil of said spring is such as to retain the upper end of the stop pin 17 in contact with the lower side of the stationary plate 8,

ments 2, which are all connected together whereby when the stop pin 17 is brought beneath the lower side of the aperture 16, the disk 3 and stop pin 17 will be drawn upwardly by the recoil of-said spiral spring 18, when the stop pin is caused to enter the aperture 16 which corresponds with the pocket containing the nails which the operator desires to use. When, however, the operator desires to use another style or size of nail, a turning movement is communicated to the several receptacles as by revolving the handle 16 which is revolved until the desired receptacle 2 is brought beneath the opening 7 when the stop pin 17 will enter the aperture 16 next adjacent to the pocket from which it is desirous to procure the nails. As the handle 16' is revolved, the stop pin 17 will be caused by its rounded or conical shaped end to move downward until i is withdrawn from the aperture 16 above, u hen said stop pin will move in a circular course beneath and in contact with the stationary plate 8 from one aperture 16 to another until the pocket or receptacle 2 containing the desired size of nails is brought beneath the aperture 7, when by the recoil oi said spiral spring 18, said stop pin will be drawn up into the next adjacent aperture and the pocket containing the nails required will be thereby retained in place.

It will be understood that the tool box 20 and the end members 11 are of ordinary construction, and that invention herein is predicated, as stated, more especially upon the device for retaining any one of the several receptacles 2 in place beneath the aperture 7 as may be required.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a device of the described class, the combination of a stationary bracket, a stationary cover provided with an annular series of apertures, and upon one side with a recess, said cover being rigidly secured to said bracket, a vertical shaft, a handle secured to the upper end of said shaft, a disk, and a plurality of receptacles rigidly secured to the lower end of said shaft below said stationary bracket and cover, a disk secured to said shaft above said bracket and cover, a spiral spring interposed between said last named disk and handle, said spring being adapted to hold said receptacle and the lower disk in yielding contact with the underside of said cover, a stop pin rigidly alliXed to the lower disk beneath said cover, said stop pin being adapted to be drawn up by the recoil of said spring and caused to enter any one of the several apertures formed in said stationary cover as said receptacles are revolved, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

.VILLIAM H. KRUG Witnesses HENRY P. GLASOW. 15. J. Hus'rmo.

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